There are problems at the medical prison in that article, and the prison system in California is a mess, in general. I don’t have a medial background, much less a background in healthcare for prison inmates, but this commenter seems to have the best grasp of what might be wrong at this prison hospital, IMO.
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naughtyrn
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I am a RN in a Ca state correctional facility. I have many years experience in the hospital ER and ICU. The problem is the reciever! He is unrealistic in his goals and you can’t always throw money at a problem to make it better. I only work with a handfull of RN’s and LVN’s that have the patient care knowledge to work in corrections. Most of the nursing staff if “institutionalized” they are lazy and uneducated.
The reciever thinks that we need More and More Managers instead of qualified workers. We Have a Correctional Nurse Executive that makes $15,000.00 a month a Director of Nurses who makes $13,000.00 a month and 13 Supervising Registered Nurses that make $10,000.00 a month. We have 1 supervisor per 3-5 nurses. In the Hospital 1 Supervisor manages 2 Units of maybe 75 employees. They are all Reactionary- they aren’t proactive on problems they just react when problems arise. Our CNE who is so far removed from patient care dictates the set up of operations where i work she doesn’t want any input from the nurses who actually have to work in the area. Working in a correctional environment is very unique but in our facility correctional staff and medical staff rarely talk to each other until there is a problem.
If the people of California want to make this new medical facility work they should fire the reciever and the wasteful upper management and ask the people that have to work their how to fix it!!!.
